Hi,
Nowadays you can see everywhere that many people make thousands of dollars through blogging. This has made many others to think about starting a blog whereas 99% of them can not write a single 500 words article on their own. They know that they are not suitable for blogging but can not ignore the money that their blog can make for them because they have heard that it makes money.
So they have one options: Creating a spam blog (also known as splog) that steals other blogs contents automatically and so doesn't need any article to be written by the blog owner. They think that such a blog will make money too but it can not make a single cent because as I said it is called spam blog. No search engine will rank it and nobody will be interested in reading it because its posts are defective, non-sense and off topic.
So if you are a blogger and you can not write about the topic that your blog is about, you are wasting your time. If you can write but don't know "how" but just post something on your blog everyday to keep it updated, again you are wasting your time and you will give up soon.
I see many bloggers, just make some posts everyday to say they have updated their blog. When you read their posts, you decide not to be back to their blog again. If you don't like to be such a blogger and have such a blog, before you make a post ask yourself, "What's the point? What do I want to achieve? What reaction am I aiming for? What do I want the reader to do after reading my post?"
Don't make a post on your blog just to keep your blog updated. Post something that makes an impact in your readers life and business.
franke1 posted this at 13:45—26th March 2007.
They have: 70 posts
Joined: Dec 2006
Thank you for the info and tips
Megan posted this at 13:53—26th March 2007.
She has: 10,032 posts
Joined: Jun 1999
I think a lot of people are jumping on the idea that blogging is good for marketing without really thinking about what it entails. I see two problems happening - first, a lack of ideas, which is referred to above. You have to have something to say. If not, there might be better ways to promote yourself and blogging badly could be worse than not blogging at all.
The second problem I see a lot is bad writing. Blogging is writing. It's a little more informal than what you might have done in school, but it's still writing. It might be a good way to practice but if you can't write well enough nobody is going to read your blog and nobody is going to link to you either. Again, blogging badly could be worse than not blogging at all.
Questions:
Do I know what I'm talking about?
Do I have something interesting to say?
Can I write well in English?
There is a big content revolution going on these days. The SEO's have (finally!) picked up on it and content is really coming becoming "king". You have to be able to write to keep up these days (or hire someone who can!).
Megan
My web design blog